Bug 104566

Summary:	grub-install not run (or fails) during upgrade from SUSE 9.3 pro
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Peter Nixon <nix>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Peter Nixon 2005-08-13 11:47:56 UTC

After upgrading a SUSE 9.3 Pro from the SUSE 10 Beta 1 CD1 the installation  
program reboots the machine. The machine fails to boot with "Operating  
System not found" message. This is due to grub not being correctly  
updated. The recovery procedure is: 
 
* Boot from CD1 
* Select "Rescue System" from the boot menu 
* Pick a keyboard map when it asks 
* Login as "root" 
* Type "mkdir suntel" 
* Type "fdisk -l /dev/hda" (or /dev/sda etc) to list your partition table 
* Mount the correct "Linux" root partition which in my case is /dev/hda3 to  
the suntel directory with "mount /dev/hda3 suntel" 
* type "chroot suntel" 
* type "mount /proc" 
* type "grub-install /dev/hda" (or /dev/sda or whatever your boot hard disk  
is) 
* type "umount /proc" 
* type "exit" 
* type "umount suntel" 
* eject CD1 from your drive 
* type "reboot" 
 
Your system should not boot correctly into linux and continue the rest of  
the installations (CDs 2-4)

Comment 1 Richard Bos 2005-08-13 20:25:32 UTC

Nice to see the recovery procedure. 
 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103031 ***